For less than $500, junior can take out several hundred marauders in a
schooyard.
Let me ask you this: Is $500 too much to pay for freedom?
There are two problems with handguns in America:
1) People use these things to massacre others
2) And those who defend the handgun industry and thus allow this to happen

What if every red-blooded American citizen were allowed to purchase a small
nuke?

That makes clear the absurdity of "we need weapons for self defense." Having more weapons
doesn't increase self-defense; it makes the situation worse.

Each schoolyard massacre will increase the pressure to ban handguns. It is entirely feasible
to kill 300-500 children. When we reach those body counts, handguns will be banned.